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Travel and tour Zimbabwe to discover the beauty of Zimbabwe’s birds beneath the African sun. Zimbabwe is home to a wide variety of birds, from the brightly colored parrots and hornbills to the majestic eagles and vultures. With over 560 species of birds, it is a...
There is something Great about a Zimbabwean, just as there is about the Great Zimbabwe Kingdom in the heart of Southern Africa. They are rich in heritage and culture. Zimbabwe is a country with a rich cultural heritage and a fascinating history. Visitors can explore...
West Africa is beautiful, just as Zimbabwe is a paradise for leisure and investment that every West African should know. Forget the Zimbabwe you have been told, or read about. Take a few minutes to get to know the real paradise of Africa. Zimbabwe is known for its...
When you see a Zimbabwean, you have seen the Victoria Falls, also known in Xhosa as "Mosi-O-Tunya" to mean "the Smoke that Thunders". The Victoria Falls, like the Zimbabwean in your country, needs treasuring because they are a jewel to know, and come from a paradise...
The most convincing evidence that Southern Africa functions as one region rarely comes from a summit communiqué; it comes from a traveller who crosses three borders on a single trip without noticing the seams — a boat transfer from Zambia to Zimbabwe to view a...
A safari lodge on the Zambian side of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area and a boutique hotel across the river in Namibia or Botswana are, on paper, part of the same conservation and tourism landscape, but the fresh produce on each kitchen's menu...
A single elephant herd moving through the Kavango-Zambezi conservation landscape crosses five national borders without noticing any of them. The tourists who want to follow that herd across Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola generally cannot move as...
The same border post that slows a tourist's transfer from an airport to a game lodge is the border post a relief convoy would have to cross during a flood or drought emergency. That overlap is easy to miss in a summit communique focused on institutional mandates,...
A guide leading visitors through a transfrontier conservation area this week does not experience SADC as a bloc of sixteen member states with a shared regional strategy. She experiences it as a series of borders, each with its own visa rule, its own vehicle-permit...